Last week we bought the new Jamie Oliver cook book, ‘Jamie Does’, in which he’s travelled to several countries and given a bit of a taste of the cuisine. This week on his TV show of the book he went to Stockholm, Sweden, and introduced us to Swedish food. I for one pretty much equated Sweden with dill, gravadlax, roll mop herrings and meatballs. It seems that the Swedish folk like their pastries, using interesting spice combinations and using crisp fresh ingredients. I decided to make the ‘sexy swedish buns’ this weekend, which is a sweet cardamon flavoured blueberry pastry. I won’t bother posting this as a recipe as you can get it on Jamie Oliver’s website, sexy swedish buns recipe, but I will let you in to a few trial/tribulation tips at the end.

This is the book, you should get it from Sainsbury’s where it’s only £8.99 at the moment!

Ingredients, the recipe called for an orange but I used two clementines with no serious consequences. I also ran out of caster sugar so had to make up the quantity with another sugar in the dough, and use icing sugar in its place in the blueberry mix.

Fresh blueberries cost like, a million pounds, instead I used frozen ones. After they defrosted I honestly couldn’t taste the difference and at half the price of the fresh ones? definitely be using these in the future!

GREASE PROOF PAPER, my nemesis. They stuck like motherfuckers to this paper, in future I’ll be using my super baking liner thing. These are the most messy, fun things to make in the world. Definitely wear an apron when you’re making though, blueberries stain.

After baking, nom nom!

After demolishing.

The cardamon was definitely an interesting taste, very unfamiliar in something like this. In the future I think I’ll use a bigger tray, and make about 10/12 instead of just 8 as they were quite big. Fun recipe, though!